A few scenes from the Degenerate Craft Fair that’s happening again in New York this Friday and Saturday. I traded some land for this awesome stuffed guard dog by artist Greg Roth. I’m going to stick him on the property when I get back to Detroit.
Dude is totally vicious so don’t mess with LOVELAND. Here he is attacking Amy Wilson:
The test print of the first LOVELAND shirt arrived and it looks great! Inchvestors with 50 inches are more can ask me for theirs and I’ll have them printed on your choice of shirt type.
We learned that sandwiches with inches on top look good but taste bad:
And as I was cleaning out my voicemails from months ago I found a message from Stephen McGee way back in mid October (sorry I’m so bad at that). He’s a filmmaker and photographer in Detroit who heard about the project from a friend at Kickstarter. I finally gave him a call back to find him on a trip to NY without a place to stay for the night. Perfect timing! He stayed at the apartment in Brooklyn for a few days, hung out, came by the show, took pics and interviewed peops, and met more people from Kickstarter. Well, that escalated to full circledom quickly! Love it.
I’m just getting to know Stephen’s work, but I’d be remiss not to mention that he’s the one who happened to be there to get video of the dump truck being pushed out of the Packard Plant in Detroit that went a bit viral recently. Yowza:
An important note that just went out to inchvestors:
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LOVELAND Inchvestors,
To the chase:
If you’ve inchvested in 12 or more inches of Detroit I will mail you a one square inch golden deed to your land along with a magnifying glass and googly-eyed Inchy (these kits are locked and loaded, see a picture below). Send me your mailing address ASAP to jerryp[at]gmail[dot]com (or call me with it or any questions at 908-343-1981) if you’d like to receive this before Inchmas (December 25th).
Speaking of Inchmas, if you’d like to give the gift of LOVELAND Detroit micro real estate this holiday season you can inchvest in 12 inches or more at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jerry/loveland-round-7-peak-inches and send me the person’s name and address. They’ll go on the inchvestor map http://makeloveland.com/inchvestors with a note that you gifted them land and they’ll receive a beautiful little LOVELAND Inchmas package that will make them smile a mile.
Now some really big news that’s transformative for your inchvestments and the project as a whole. When the project hits its 10,000th inch, everything is going to scale up to square feet. Your original inchvestment will remain unaffected and the Plymouth colony of 10,000 square inches will still move outdoors and exist in its original square inch grid form, but, as an added reward and return on your inchvestment you will also receive the same number of square feet as you have square inches. That’s a 144x return! :)
You’ll have to bear with me while I set these new properties up, but effectively, upon reaching 10,000, if you have 12 square inches now, you’ll also have an additional 12 square feet. If you have 144 square inches you’ll also have an additional 144 square feet, etc etc. Suffice it to say this is a radical leap in terms of possibilities for developing your land. Mailboxes, gardens, solar power, benches, sheds, rocket ships(?), etc etc etc all become feasible.
Thank you so much for believing in and being part of LOVELAND. From humble beginnings, we’re working incredibly hard make this the greatest inchvestment of your lives and develop a solid framework for micro real estate ownership and creativity. Call with any questions and Merry Inchmas season everybody!
Constantly evolving and intelligently designing,
Jerry Paffendorf & Friends
Alan tells me I can do this so I do it. I just downloaded the Ustream live video apper for the spacephone and bowled a strike on my first try with a giant golf ball:
I gotta start doing more video. If there’s anything you’d like to see in Detroit or if you want to talk about LOVELAND or the weather, let me know. My crazycompany Ustream show is here.
After what seems like a million years I have a guarantee that the plastic magnifying glasses will finally arrive in Detroit tomorrow to go with the golden square inch deeds! Thank gosh. I also have a first “I’ve Got Inches In Detroit!” shirt in the mail via spreadshirt.com and if it looks good I’ll ramp up production.
This means inchvestor packages will be going out in the mail soon. It also means that I’ll have a nice physical package at the next popup stores in Detroit (Shop Detroit) and New York (Degenerate Craft Fair) this weekend. Also I picked up yet another vending machine that will vend dollar land and I got biz cards.
We are living in a material world!
Double also, my friend and studiomate Joe Krauss and I are trying out a combined online store using Shopify, which we’ve been trying to bend to our will for some time. He and his friend Paul make music as Zelda and the Unibrows that, near as I can say succinctly, sounds like Weird Al walked in on Phillip Glass having a party with Negativland. We’re still tweaking the store but it works and you can check it out here and the LOVELAND section specifically here. Pretty wild, it’s like ½ music and 1st and 4th amendment stickers and ½ micro real estate.
While I’m getting my side of that in order, the place to go for space in LOVELAND is round 7 on Kickstarter: Peak Inches!.
Here’s a music video by Joe and Paul for their song, City Kids, sung by Joe and starring Paul:
This Saturday from 10 AM to 4 PM come by the Fisher Building in Detroit for Shop Detroit and all your indie shopping needs. I’ll be there selling micro-real estate for LOVELAND. Wish those in your life whom you love a Merry Inchmas with a square inch or twelve. There’s no inch in Grinch. >_>
The following day I’ll be back in New York for the next installment of the Degenerate Craft Fair happening in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at the 303 Grand popup store on Sunday and Monday from 12 PM til 10 PM.
One free inch each to people who walk up and give me a fist bump without saying anything first.
Hope to see you in one city or the other and if you want a lift to either place let me know!
Since you can go over top of your stated goal on Kickstarter, I set the last round to have a goal of $00.01, thinking of it more like a store. Well, it confused a lot of people who thought the round was done, *but* it ended up at $100 for 100 inches meaning it was [wait for it… wait for it…] ONE MILLION PERCENT FUNDED.
Haha. I’m totally sending this to the Universal Record Database as a Kickstarter funding world record, if not some other more general sort of funding world record.
Welcome aboard new peops, and special thanks to my sister Devon who I called frantically from outside in downtown Detroit to see if she’d round up the last little bit exactly to 100 at the last minute. You call that inchsider trading? I call it love. :)
The current count on the lovely inchvestor map (minus a small in-person list I misplaced — eeee… contact me if you notice that’s you) is 5,537 square inches for 247 people. Plymouth you are starting to get pretty full…
Here’s an update I just sent to various lists that I’m reposting here:
Greetings Inchmart Shoppers!
We’re entering the Inchmas season and there’s no better time to give the gift of micro real estate in Detroit. You can buy inches for friends, family, and loved ones (frenemies and haters, too) and just let me know who they’re for. Their names will go with yours on the inchvestor map (http://bit.ly/6L6uE3 ) and they’ll receive LOVELAND Inchmas greetings. There are only hours left on the current Kickstarter round and in ecological terms we’ve already reached “peak inches” with less than 1/2 of the first Plymouth colony remaining:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jerry/loveland-round-6-a-force-more-powerful . Get to the chopper!!
This month I’ll be at a few physical locations in Detroit and New York selling micro real estate gifts so come say hey. Tomorrow, Friday the 4th I’ll be in NY for the first stop on the Degenerate Craft Fair tour:http://degeneratecraftfair.com . Then Saturday the 12th I’ll be at the Fisher Building in Detroit as part of Detroit Synergy’s Shop Detroit event:http://www.detroitsynergy.org/projects/shopdetroit . I also made an art chair deed for a Chair-ity fundraiser for homeless veterans in Michigan that will be auctioned off at Tangent art gallery in Detroit this Saturday:http://bit.ly/7RXTqb
There are some serious surprises in store for LOVELAND and inchvestors. We’ve been working hard, listening hard, and learning hard (hey, it’s hard times) and are not forever constrained to the inch scale in our exploration of micro payments for micro ownership and creative land use. I probably shouldn’t say too much more, but wouldn’t it be cool if you woke up one morning and your inchvestment had incr… oh never mind. But this is a good time to get into Plymouth before it’s full. ;)
As always, there’s new stuffs on the blog: http://7billionfriends.com .
Don’t love alone,
Jerry Paffendorf & Friends
908-343-1981
http://makeloveland.com
http://7billionfriends.com
ZOMG life moves too fast. The first stop on the Degenerate Craft Fair assembled by Amy Wilson and sponsored by Crazy Company and Kickstarter is happening this Friday at the Silent Barn in Brooklyn, the most punk rock stop on our tour (915 Wykcoff Ave, take the L train to Halsey). Come out and get some LOVELAND Detroit real estate for you and your friends starting at only $1. Detroit micro real estate has gotta be one of the best holiday gifts and stocking stuffers ever. Suriously. It’s a smile-inducer off the bat and a seed that will grow into cooler and cooler things.
And the following week on December 12th I’ll have a pop-up shop in Detroit at Shop Detroit by Detroit Synergy, then rocket back to New York for Degenerate Craft Fair round 2 the following day. Eek.
Now to update the LOVELAND site with Christmas deals and gift packages……… /deep breaths
When I first came to Detroit, Danielle Kaltz was one of the first people to reach through the internets, pull me into a car and show me around. A couple months ago she invited me to decorate a chair for an event called the Chair-ity Ball. The way it works is 80+ artists got a standard IKEA chair to assemble and do whatever they want with, then they’ll be auctioned off at an event where the proceeds go to help homeless veterans in Michigan. Fun stuff, good cause.
The event is happening this Saturday from 7-10 PM at Tangent Gallery (715 E. Milwaukee St) in Detroit. Here are some snaps of the chair I made. It’s called “A Place To Land” and it comes with a LOVELAND deed for 256 square inches of land in Detroit, which is how big the chair is. So if you’re the highest bidder you get a chair, you get some real estate, you help homeless veterans. Badabing, badaboom. Sadly I can’t be there Saturday, but if you want a pass let me know!
So while I lay on the couch nursing my Thanksgiving turkey hangover I was also dabbling in the strange new art of shirtimation. How new is it? Well I think I just made it up the other day. The basic idea is to take each frame of an animation and print it on an individual shirt, so that if everyone wearing a shirt from the series stood in a row you could read the whole thing. Taking a couple art direction cues from Joana Lima, Jen Ruud, and my sister (“have a bird” “chainpaws eating a fish” “make it stink less” yes, and…), and using Pierce P’s illustrations as the core, the end result is this 20-frame animation that I’m making available to all LOVELAND inchvestors who inchvest in 50 inches or more.
LOVELAND Limited Edition Experimental Shirtimation from Jerry Paffendorf on Vimeo.
Each shirt will be unique and never printed again. I’ll print them through SpreadShirt when there’s demand.
I’m also very happy to finally have a finished design for a more traditional static shirt:
I’ve been behind on the shirts but now we can go. I also gotta get some made for the Degenerate Craft Fair LOVELAND will be at coming up soon in New York. Yikes! Go gadget go.